I may be wrong, but I think there was an article on AFTimes.com yesterday that stated that most or all of these former officers are employed as lobbyists for either Northrop-Grumman or EADS. That said, yes, AF generals did want the KC-30. It was Air Force senior leadership that decided the KC-30 was the winner, and SecAF has backed that choice. Ghilis, I'm not sure that the EADS/Northrop bid was much cheaper, but it did offer more capability for roughly the same price. The best analogy I've seen is that the AF "went shopping for a Ford Explorer, and wound up with a Range Rover for the same price. Personally, I think that the AF would have been foolish to pick the Boeing, and I grew up in Seattle and I prefer the more pilot oriented Boeings. But you really can't argue with more capability for the same price.